In Brick on Wednesday for the announcement of the Narcan pilot program's expansion into Monmouth County, the governor said residents must look at new ways of addressing the addiction epidemic, focusing on treatment and rehabilitation over incarceration.

He said the war on drugs, though launched with good intentions, has failed.

"Incarcerating people exclusively for drug-related problems, especially nonviolent folks, has been an abject failure," Christie said.

While the governor said there will "always be jail cells for violent sociopaths who may have drugs as part of their problem," he explained that we can't lump nonviolent addicts with those people.

"It is time to stop stigmatizing those who have fallen to an illness, an addiction," Christie said.

According to the governor, not only is the current system failing the citizens of New Jersey, but it's also costing them money.

"We incarcerate them at the cost of $49,000 a year here in New Jersey, we don't give them treatment, drugs are smuggled into our state prisons despite our best efforts, and people go back out onto the streets addicted," Christie said.

The expansion of the pilot program will allow police in Ocean and Monmouth counties to carry Narcan, a drug that can be administered nasally and reverses the effects of an opiate overdose immediately.